Yup and hope more areas boost their birth rates too.

😂 1.26 is so low. For comparison, the United States as a whole is still 1.62 and in rural areas it can still score 2.13

It's still an abismal birthrate though, so that's why urbanization wasn't mentioned. Clearly it isn't the reason for the overall trend, and they want to paint this birthrate in the video as a beacon for hope even though it's actually a stark reminder of just how dire the situation is nationally.

lol, worst analysis ever. At least look at the charts on urbanization and fertility rate to see that you are wrong. It's almost like you don't know families that live in Korea and are just spit balling Peter Zeihan type information.

Actually fertility rates mostly corellate with wealth. The wealthier society, the less interest for children. Wealth is result of productive economy, and in such economies people work a lot. Then there is birth control and other factors, such as lack of proper properties for raising family, absence of children supporting infrastructure and network (kindergardens, day care etc.), things like that, raise of individualism and comformism etc. Wide range of different factors, really.

@@0xyGen_2.p0 I'm one of the few people that aren't worried. The only area I'd be a bit concerned is the military. If I were a politician, I'd start creating small test programs for foreigners to join the military in exchange for citizenship. It's really easy to import workers for Korea due to it's size. I'd imagine that Korea will be get to at least 25% foreigner / mixed race over time. That's only +10M people (currently at 5%). That's a reasonable number to import math wise. Society will need to change and become more welcoming which will have issues. lol, if China imported 10% more people that would be 140M.

@@HKim0072 That's exactly the logic behind illegal migration in Europe. The most vital parts where young population lives that can raise fertility (those that aren't in fertility age were just supposed to fill up the pension system that gets critically empty without labour active population ) is Africa, Middle East and India, Pakistan. Problem with these populations is their mentality they came with from their native countries: 1. no working culture whatsoever, 2. a culture of depending on social supports and crime (mostly small like thefts, but also raping culture) as a lifestyle (result of 1), and 3. religious fanatism and radicalisation (all being muslims) into which they were raised from birth. Assimilation in Europe gave no results and we have huge and aggressive illegal immigrant wave because EU decision making structure are dominated by radical leftist and progressive (woke) ideologies that see migrations as tool to destroy old Europe and build new according to leftist ideas and principles (dominance of (neo)marxist ideologies that caused two world wars already in.past).. So we have huge wave of immigrants that we feed and they actually do contribute to fertility rates, but their refuse to work so now we have problem even bigger than before, because we have to feed old population that contributed into pension system for 30 or 35 years but is spending from it for 20 or 30 years longer due to longer life rates, and we have to feed mass of young population in best labour active age out of social supports - while they refuse to participate to society as labour active part of population. They refuse to work and those (really smart minority) that do enter labour market have no working culture. They don't come to work at time, they can't work as hard as domestic population does, they often decide not to come to working place and so on. Also their literacy is low and their only source of "education" is quran. Young people not working from immigrant population also cause significant raise of criminal rate. Germany is disclosed official data (other states cover them for ideological resons) and crime rates went up just in 1 year for 80 % and perpetrators are in 95% illegal immigrants. How do you include these people in military? You can't. They refuse to asimilate, speak language of domestic country, they feel no loyalty for the country they moved in. In Germany they protest for khalifat, burn churches and are terrorising local population. Immigrant wave confirmed EXACTLY what is going on in France with its own muslim populations. Even third and fourth generations of muslims did not asimilate into French society and feel hostility toward French state. This is not because of racism of local population, it is because of dominance of islamism and racism on side of immigrants. Muslims see non-muslims as dogs and this 8s so for centuries. Nothing can change it. They see the countries they move in as their colonies. So you don't give these people access to guns (military). They would turn these guns against you. In my native country we prefer Asians from your part of world but economies there are strong so there isn't enough of interest for migrating over here.

I think the Korean men should learn from Hwacheon men on how it is done. All this talk, data and statistics are useless unless there are actions. The Korean gov should also give grants for cosmetic surgery for all child birth. Problems solved.

They have it in our area. But it is just a program and not an actual community center like this.

Cup half empty comment..i see half full as a Korean

they push their children in as many cram schools they can get them into as soon as they start to speak. They all do it. Me too, I believe children should have their careless childhood and time to develop their inner straight in happy, warm and loving environment without social pressure.

@@0xyGen_2.p0 At their age as soon as I came home, I went and messed around with my friends outside until near sun-down. That's what childhood should be like. It's honestly sad how schooling culture is like in Korea and China. To think i would've ended up in a similar situation if my family didn't leave China gives me the creeps.

@@greatmacaron5779 my childhood was the same. Happy one, full of child play and adventures from morning to night. Full of sun, sounds and smell. The books I loved and marked my life with that wonderful imagination that sharpens the brain and boosts curiosity. And fantastic 2 months long summer vacations when we didn't have to go in school and we kids would spent them on countryside at grandma's, running around barefoot, being free as birds. I think I was privileged to experience that, and I'm pleased to read that someone experienced it either. Today we see such scenes only in films like Minari or, at leads partly, in Koreeda's heartbreaking Monster. Isn't this sad? Are you Chinese or mixed Chinese-Korean if I may ask? An expat, perhaps?

@@0xyGen_2.p0 Pure chinese, though I hardly speak it myself, ironically. And no, not an expat myself as I was born where i currently live in europe.

@@greatmacaron5779 Thanks for answering. I'm European as well, hello to you, fellow European. Ni hao.

Good relative to national average.

@@Dung1NguyenTuan-ew4ey yeah but still it's terrible

What???

Yes, but in this economy? Nowadays, everywhere, both parents works because they need the double income for the household. Rent, groceries, healthcare, etc.

Not everyone has that luxury. Most people don’t as both parents need to work.

@@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj I didnt say that. The newscaster said this is the best childcare. Which is not true. The best is with one parant home and yes I know at times it requires two incomes. But I grew up with no income parants and made it. So it is possible.

@@donaldharvey2169True but it is not old days anymore. Kids these days don’t want to endure what our generation did.